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Submitted by
JERRYG
a Audio Enthusiast

Date Reviewed: June 26, 2015

Bottom Line:

This is the most overpriced POS ever to be dumped on the electronic consumer market.
EVERYTHING bad as mentioned in so many reviews here is accurate. It took me weeks of constant email complaints to get an authorization to remove this dog from my premises

PS -.You shouldn't have to go hunting to find the "right" brand of CD to record on this stinker.
As it turns out, there is no right brand. Only bad and worse. It does have a pretty LED display. Hardly worth the 499.00.

Hey Guys!~ After long searching, I found the right CD-RW for the the Philip CDR785 Recorder.
It is the TDK 1x4 write speed CD-RW. The low speed is the key. It is 80 minutes and 700 mb. Works perfectly!!! Don't throw away that 785!!!

So the saga continues with the Philips CDR785 and other CDR burners they build. Very flakey and unreliable when accepting blank CDR's. And to make matters worse the only disc that still seem to work in mine, you can no longer by! (1-4X audio only) Do yourself a big favor and spend the extra $150.oo and get the pro quality TEAC unit like used in recording studios, these things will burn any disc! Too bad to I really liked the quality of the converters used in the Phillips. As far as there factory service is, don't bother , mine returned in worse condition than when I sent it. Someone really needs to start a class action law suit for all the suckers that bought there junk. I will never by another Philips product, no matter how good or how cheap!!!!!!!!

Just as mentioned in other reviews this was my second recorder. The first wouldn't even open half the time. I have owned the second one for about a year and a half. Now it has started to shut down in the middle of recording and won't accept hardly any forms of blank cd's. If I had to do all over I would purchase a different brand. I have to say philips recorders are junk. All I can do with it is play cd's. I thought that this was the best thing since sliced bread, but upon further use I can best describe it as a nuisance and should not be in my home entertainment system. BUYER BEWARE its a roll of the dice with this one.

As others have mentioned, sometimes you can open the drawer. Also periodically will record about 30 seconds than shut down. It now will not even record from another source.Piece of junk. WASTED MONEY!!!